EY reviews

Work days are long. They say 9-5 but really its 9-8 so forget about having a social or family life. If you have kids seriously dont apply or if you do make sure you say you wont do overtime and make sure its in your contract. You could get the job done within the working hours but everything has to be reviewed by a manager. Every single email. Managers usually complete their work first and start reviewing yours at 5:30 so you have to stay late waiting for them. Because of this everyone is burnt out. EYs systems are archaic with a cray amount of admin as a lot of work is farmed out to India. You have to waste a lot of time emailing India rather than getting on with your work because there is no case management system. There is also no precedent bank so there is a lot of inconsistency and a lot of inefficiency. There is also no training whatsoever. You get the legal and regulatory mandatory training for 2 days when you first join but then there is no training on their internal systems. At EY you learn by mistakes. Managers are too busy trying to meet their own billing targets to train. They want people who can hit the ground running, so if you are coming here for personal development you wont get it. Promotions require at least 1 year of service so its better to interview at the level you want rather than progressing internally. There is a lot of office politics and sometimes it feels like you are back in school. People dont work to help each other here. If they can they will throw you under the bus for any little thing so really watch your back and keep copies of emails. Its a toxic culture. Entry level staff are nice but as you go up the ladder they are all on some ego trip and seem to have lost their soul. I realised this on the first day! If you really need the prestige of working for EY then I would say you need to be young, without commitments and have no social life. Even then I dont think you would want to be there for longer than 6 months as the people and internal politics does wear you down mentally. Hopefully I can help someone. If I had read a review like this I would not have interviewed for the role and would have rather worked for a high street firm because the pay is not worth it.

1. No consideration of your career interest. In the end, what helps you in your career will be whether you have relevant experience. At EY Singapore, you have no input in the projects you work on 2. Extremely negative culture. A lot of cliques, gossips, backstabbing and favoritism. Everyone focuses on kissing up and trashing peers to advance. 3. Flexibility is not supported. Requesting it will be used as a negative in your performance review 4. Both culture and pay are worst among big 4 and other professional companies 5. Overall, there's a reason for the high turn-over rate, even in big 4 standard. I have heard from colleagues from EY offices overseas that EY Singapore is an anomaly. For the internal EY employee satisfaction survey, EY Singapore has been consistently ranked the lowest globally (30%-40% satisfaction vs. 70%-80% global average) Advice for potential joiners: 1. figure out the type of projects that interest you, and ask your recruiters/interviewers EY's experience in them. Ask specifically when the project happened and where it happened - leadership here has a tendency to over-promise and use projects from overseas offices or from years ago as examples for EY Singapore. 2. HR in EY Singapore has been known to post fake positive reviews online. Look at reviews from the negative side and see if there are common themes. And then base your decision on all considerations.